Flying Cars Are The Future

The future is officially with us. Forget satnavs, or personal robots, or even 3D printers. The lodestone of futurism is, and always has been, the flying car. Well it is almost upon us.

Our Driver’s Seat blog has a short post on Terrafugia, Inc., the Woburn, Mass., company developing a flying car or “roadable aircraft” called the Transition being granted special permission to use different tires and an aircraft like windshield.

The company says laminated safety glass used on cars for decades would add too much weight and could fracture in a way that would obscure the pilot’s view through the windshield. Lightweight polycarbonate windshields used in aircraft are designed in part to withstand impacts with birds, which are generally more of a hazard to pilots than drivers.

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